The Role of Energy in the Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth

I wrote this paper with Astrid Kander a few months ago following my visit to Lund, but it has only just been added to RePEc. In the paper, we develop a simple model of economic growth that allows for a significant role for energy and we apply the model to the Swedish data for the 19th and 20th centuries. To keep things as simple as possible the model is an extension of the famous Solow growth

Omumbo et al. Revisit Temperature at Kericho, Kenya

Last year I wrote a series of http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2010/06/changes-to-cru-database.html">blogposts about the controversy over malaria and climate change in highland East Africa, and most specifically at Kericho, Kenya. Our previous research had shown that there was no signficant trend in temperature in various locations across Eastern Africa and so the increase in malaria morbidity

Astrid Kander

There is an article about my collaborator Astrid Kander in the Sydsvenskan newspaper. Apparently the reporter went to the same high school as her. ">Google's translation into English sounds quite poetic :)

Grattan Institute Report on Australia's Carbon Emissions Reduction Policies

The Grattan Institute has put out a report reviewing the performance of Australia's policies to reduce carbon emissions. Maybe you are surprised to find that there are quite a lot of these, actually, including some semi-market based mechanisms. The most important of these is the Renewable Energy Target. Electricity generators have to generate 20% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

If You Only Have 2 Hours to Teach Environmental Economics, What Would You Say?

All of us teaching Introductory Economics face this problem. This is what I'm going to say on Tuesday.

CCEP Working Papers in March 2011

CCEP Working Papers got a nice bounce in hits in March. I think this is partly due to us putting links to RePEc onto the CCEP website as well as releasing some new papers (also see the paper by Eric Knight and Nick Howarth and Hugh Saddler.